LOOKING BACK: Municipality of Tweed

2022 is winding down and Quinte News continues to look back at the last 12 months with local dignitaries, movers and shakers.

Former Tweed Mayor Joanne Albert left the top seat, after being on council since 2003.

She says major weather events topped the challenges for the year.

“We had that wind storm and less than four weeks later we had the tornado. That’s still devastating, I’m still hoping something can be done to help some of our residents.”

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Albert says it was a difficult way to end a term, considering that during the two years prior, municipalities, the province, country, and world had to navigate a pandemic. Here are her comments from earlier this year in regards to the cleanup.

“We don’t have the equipment or the manpower, the resources to get rid of these huge trees. We did have a four- almost five-hour tour with the ministry people for assessing property. We haven’t heard anything yet.”

She did comment on one of the big victories from the past year. Albert says their waste water expansion of the lagoon was a tremendous development for the economic future of the municipality.

“We needed that expansion so we could further develop in the Village of Tweed. That to me was our highlight. Also another ten-year project was finally getting the application for our own gravel pit on Esker Road.”

It was Albert’s last year as mayor. She was first elected to Tweed council in 2003. Don Degenova was elected as mayor after Albert announced she was stepping down.